Sláinte Healthcare will be attending HIMSS17 at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando on 19 - 23 February 2017.

The 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition held in Las Vegas brought together 40,000+ health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world. Exceptional education, world-class speakers, cutting-edge health IT products and powerful networking were all hallmarks of this year's industry-leading conference.  

We examine the Big Bang versus phased EMR implementation for hospitals.  Exploring the various concerns hospitals have during an implementation of an EMR such as change management, business continuity aspects, and logistics around existing and new impatient records.

"We met Sláinte's CEO and their people, they have literally taken our medical record issue and computerised it… just imagine what that can do to revolutionise the way that we take care of the children in future. It’s going to augment the way children are helped and they did it with this wonderful smile, energy and enthusiasm that you can't even quantitate." - Dr Bill Magee, D.D.S, M.D., Co Founder & CEO, 

'A paper medical record is good because it allows you to look after that one patient but imagine having an EMR then you are able to understand what’s happening with hundreds or thousands of patients. Vitro has unleashed this amazing opportunity to understand our patients." - Ruben Ayala, M.D. Senior Vice President Medical Affairs of Operation Smile.

Case Study

"Vitro is an amazing solution because it lets us take the existing paper workflow that Operation Smile has done such a great job developing, and put that on tablet devices without changing the look and feel of the workflow, and so for the clinician who is already used to the paper workflow, they have that same workflow but now it is on a tablet and we are able to digitise that workflow." Paul Smolke, Industry Managing Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft

Vitro delivers an EMR for Calvary Health Care Bethlehem, Australia, enabling the hospital to go completely paperless. "Given the time if you talk about 6 months from ‘woe to go’ in terms of getting to the point of implementation it was amazing and I’m not aware of any other site or service that has introduced that form of electronic record that have been able to achieve that. I’m very proud of the work that we’ve done but also very proud of the work that we’ve done collaboratively with Sláinte Healthcare." Shannon Thompson, Director of Clinical Services.

"From an adoption point of view, quite a few nursing staff have been surprised at how easy it has been to use. Since the implementation of vitro patients have commented on the presence of staff closer to the patient’s bedside they are not they’re not having to be at the central nurse’s station because they have got access to various workstations around the ward." Belinda McRae – Nurse Unit Manager

Bethlehem Hospital saw immediate benefits in terms of user adoption, the increased quantity and quality of data captured, the simultaneous accessibility of records by multiple clinicians and the economic benefits seen from the start of paper elimination. Additionally;

• There was more than 90% decrease in the time taken to audit medical records.
• There has been a 95% improvement in the completion of clinical documentation.
• There has been a 75% saving in the costs associated with becoming paperless and these costs are continually decreasing.
• The collation of information for freedom of information requests has been reduced by over 80%.

Case Study